Lucifer & Cannibis Connection

At the present time there are increasing calls for the legalisation of cannabis/marijuana -- otherwise known as dope, pot, Mary Jane, weed, hash, ganga, laughing grass, etc. A number of us have, for some time, predicted the legalisation of this psychotropic drug. When the Daily Telegraph -- the UK's most conservative newspaper -- calls for the legalisation of dope, as it did via a poll at the beginning of April 2000 (see the article on 4/4/00 in Electronic Telegraph on http://www.telegraph.co.uk ), you know that something leviathanlike is stirring. Even the Daily Mail held a poll recently which gave overwhelming support to the idea of legalised cannabis. Even the principal of a well-known evanjellycal theological college has supported the idea of the legalisation of cannabis today!

    The general theory is that the consumption of cannabis can no longer be said to lead on to "harder" drugs such as cocaine or heroin, and that possession of cannabis ought to be decriminalised as it is no longer really a crime. However, the truth is that for many -- especially the more vulnerable and weaker members of society -- the smoking or eating of cannabis is an addictive activity which can easily form part of a chain of events involving other drugs.

    But this aspect of cannabis-taking (as a harbinger of "harder" drugs) is surely not the real issue. Although there is no doubt that cannabis-taking is part of a wider drug culture, involving a search for greater and greater "highs", there is something far more sinister about this drug which never normally forms a part of the debate on the issue. I am referring here to the fact that there are major global *spiritual* ramifications involved in the consumption of cannabis.

    Here we need to understand the fundamental importance of the global developments which took place in the 1960s. Until the 1960s, smoking dope had largely been confined to jazz musicians and hardcore beatniks who had been Jack Kerouakified. But at that time, a new counter-culture was formed which opened up the youth of that period to a massive infestation of demonic influence and anti-Christian behaviour. Central to this was the use of hallucinogenic and mind-altering drugs such as Marijuana, Cannabis resin, Lysergic Acid Dithylamide (LSD), di-Methyl Tryptamine (DMT), Mescaline, Peyote and other fungal concoctions.

    The use of these substances on such a scale - which is still a vast growth industry to this day - brought millions of young and impressionable people under the sway of a number of influences which were to be of fundamental importance to satanic strategy at this point in history:-

1) It enabled people to alter their consciousness at will and thereby enter states in which they could more easily come into contact with evil spirits which masquerade as benign beings who have come to assist in the birthing of the New Age/New World Order (we have written extensively on this in other articles on this website -- e.g. "The Ascended Masters").

2) The use of such drugs propagated the notion that 'ordinary' Christianity was of a lower order than the rich mystical experiences which were possible through such an alteration of consciousness. Eventually it was discovered that certain meditation practices could bring about the same effects as the drugs, which had merely paved the way for these 'deeper' religious experiences.

3) It compounded the concept of both Theosophy and Eastern religion, that one can tap into the 'God within' through such activity.

4) It brought about a realisation of people-power through encouraging rebellion against Biblically-rooted authority and morality, thus paving the way for the sexual revolution and such 'democratic human rights' as abortion on demand.

5) The 1960s psychotropic drug culture perpetuated the notion that the long-desired Golden Age of peace and justice could be established on the earth - that it was possible, in the words of one psychologist who advocated such developments, "to stay high forever and bring home the New Jerusalem, the Whole Earth" [John Heider, 'Catharsis in Human Potential Encounter', Journal of Humanistic Psychology, No.14, 1974. Quoted in John Rowan, Ordinary Ecstasy: Humanistic Psychology in Action, (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976), p.103.]

    Even at this time, the undercurrent feeling was that the movement was going to bring about a massive global change to usher in the New Age. 'Acid-Rock' (LSD drug influenced) groups such as the Grateful Dead, Country Joe and the Fish, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Jefferson Airplane, and the Quicksilver Messenger Service all reflected this movement in their lyrics, exercising a vast influence over their audiences. The entire accent was on 'blowing your mind'. One chart-topping song of 1967, entitled 'San Francisco', made the claim that 'All across the nation, there's a new generation, such a strange vibration...'. And 'strange vibration' it was -- largely inclucated by the massive influx of Cannabis use.

    Some readers may recall seeing news-footage of a huge utopian-based rock-music festival at Woodstock, in the U.S.A. in 1969, which brought the surrounding area to a complete standstill for tens of miles. At this gathering, more than a million people were swaying, trancelike, in the mists of marijuana, holding marathon encounter-therapy groups, reading each other's astrological birth charts and Tarot cards, listening to the hypnotic sounds of acid-rock music, and receiving instruction in the practice of Kundalini Yoga, Vippasana meditation and a host of other esoteric arts. The well-known haunting song 'Woodstock', written by the singer Joni Mitchell, was the anthem of this festival; and the Neo-Gnostic intent behind it is clearly portrayed in the lyrics:

    "...Gonna camp out on the land and set my soul free. We are stardust (billion year-old carbon) And we are golden (caught in the Devil's bargain) And we've got to get ourselves back to the Garden".

    The 'Garden' here is the Garden of Eden, which the occultist, alchemist, magician and Gnostic will always seek to set up once more on the earth. Here we have the primary difference between the polluted way of the Gnostic and the sanctified Way of Christ. The Gnostic always tries to return to the conditions of Eden, to create heaven on earth through his own collective strength. But the Christian knows that a return to Eden would be a retrograde step, and so - in patience and faith - he awaits the making of all things new by the grace of his Creator.

    The mystical and gnostic influences of the stoned-out 1960s moved from their initial confinement within 'fringe' groups and esoteric organisations to a burgeoning international respectability, and can today be observed in many areas of establishment life. As the 'flower-children' of that period grew up, they went on to take their place in society, spreading their doctrine as they went and thereby influencing the policies of their various professional occupations. For although they may have cut their hair and put on suits, they still continued to engage in the 'mind-expanding' practices which had played such a part in their formative years - a fact which has been well-documented in the book 'The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s', by the New Age researcher Marilyn Ferguson. [Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s, (Granada/Paladin, 1982), 494pp]. Not only that, but the children of the 1960s also went on to have families, and these children have also been reared on marijuana, magic mushrooms, mandalas and meditation. So, not only are the dope-smoking, mind-expanding, acid-dropping flower people of the 1960s now positioned in places of power in government, medicine, psychiatry, computing, education and business; but their children are also now entering adulthood and taking their places in the world. Two generations of the children of the New Age have now come of age. As the New Age physicist, Dr. Fritjof Capra of Berkeley University, has stated: "The social movements of the 1960s and 1970s represent the rising culture, which is now ready for the passage to the solar age". [Fritjof Capra, The Turning Point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture, Flamingo, 1982, p.466]. The "solar age" is the age of the Sun-god, Lucifer the "lightbearer". It is what people today call the "New Age" of Aquarius.

    It is important for us to realise that the main interface between the demonic realm and humanity lies in the sphere of the imagination, through the use of mind-control. There is a thirst in the life-force of the demon for a control of human affairs, manifesting itself at its mildest level through simple manipulation of specific thought-patterns and behaviour; while at its most severe, it seeks to work through complete control of the life of the human creature. It is, therefore, necessary for appropriate opportunity to be provided in order that the unseen forces of evil can work at their most efficient in the human being. These footholds generally constitute such things as violent thoughts and actions, extreme anti-social behaviour, sexual immorality, compulsive drug-taking, sorcery, idolatry, and so on. This is precisely why the Apostle Paul advised that we should not give an 'opportunity' or 'foothold' (Greek: topos, 'place') to the devil through holding on to such extreme emotions as anger (Eph.4:26-27). It is through their curiosity about, and experience of, sinful phenomena that people become open to demonic interference, influence and affliction; this culminates in actual 'possession' in extreme cases, where a person deliberately and wilfully 'sells the soul' through yielding himself up to psychic forces which he is unable to handle, e.g., through ritual magic, psychic exploration, mediumship, repeated sexual depravity, extreme violence, and so on. We are referring here to the unbeliever, who is, by nature, in bondage to Satan (Acts 26:18; cf. Col.1:13). The Christian is indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and, although he can be sorely tested by Satan, he can never be in bondage to him (Rom.6:14; 1 Jn.3:8-9). On the other hand, the natural man's essential depravity makes him an easy and willing prey to the forces of darkness (Eph.2:2; 2Cor.4:3-4).

    Because the demonic realm exists in another 'dimension' from that of the human inhabitants of the earth -- coupled with the fact that it is also under a degree of Divine restraint -- it is necessary for certain conditions to prevail in order for its intentions to be carried out with maximum effectiveness. This limitation is openly recognised amongst those controlled by demonic forces. One 'spirit guide' frankly reported to the person through whom it was being 'channelled': "We are unable to commune with humans whose vibrational fields are distorted by ego factors, emotional reactions, excessive conceptualisation, or past-future orientation". [Ken Carey, The Starseed Transmissions, Harper, 1982, p.35].

    What this means is that unless a person has begun to make some attempt to "dissolve" their ego and open themselves up through consciousness-altering techniques, the demonic realm will be restricted in its ability to communicate with them. It is for this reason that one finds, in New Age circles, a tendency to stress the inferiority of the rational mind and conceptualisation, urging that it should be relinquished if one is to have truly effective communion with the spiritual realm. To this end, cunning methods of encouraging us to alter our normal level of consciousness and suspend our rationality have been devised by the forces of darkness -- often in the interests of so-called 'self-improvement' -- so that the person surrenders his or her mind to these forces without any awareness of the fact and what it entails. Many different techniques are recommended by the advocates of the New Age; however, they all fall under seven main headings:

1. Meditation techniques, such as Kundalini, Vipassana, Tantrism, Zen, and various forms of guided imagery.
2. Psychic exploration ('Channelling').
3. Psychotherapies -- especially the transpersonal and humanistic varieties, and those which involve hypnosis.
4. Consciousness-altering drugs and other substances, such as Cannabis, LSD, and hallucinogenic fungi.
5. Varieties of trance-inducing activities, such as Dervishism, visualisation, chanting of repetitive phrases (mantras) and choruses, and the hypnotic phenomenon known in certain professing Christian circles as being 'slain in the spirit'.
6. Extreme asceticism, such as fasting, sleep-deprivation, etc.
7. 'Close encounters' with a Guru or Master.

    The combination of these influences constitutes the foundation of what is today called the New Consciousness -- a term referring to the world-view which undergirds the many practices of the New Age Movement or Neo-Gnosticism. In spite of the use of the word 'new' here, there is nothing new about them, for they are the fulfilment of the secret doctrine of the esoteric groups which Satan has preserved in the so-called "civilised" nations for centuries.

    This manipulation of human consciousness can be observed in the worldwide resurgence of mysticism and occult gnosis through a wide variety of gurus and philosophies, which have attracted many millions of spiritually-experimenting people into Satan's occult plan. Although there have long been pockets of people around the world who advocated the alteration of consciousness, the manipulation of consciousness on a grand scale began in earnest in the mid-1960s with the advent of the hippie drug culture. Indeed, the 'psychedelic' 1960s proved to be a watershed in this development, as things began to move from being the sole province of the 'beard and caftan' brigade to that of the yuppie, businessman, politician and white-coated professional. It is necessary for good communication between the demonic realm and humanity that the 'inner life' or imaginal capacity of a person should be 'expanded' to its maximum, thus creating an openness to manipulation of the mind. This fact accounts for the huge growth in recent decades of the use of 'mind-expanding' drugs and all the other techniques which are being used to expand consciousness and create the illusion of realised divinity. As one Neo-Gnostic psychologist rightly claimed more than fifteen years ago that:

    "The single major event forcing [the] development [of transpersonal psychology] has been the widespread use and abuse of psychedelic or mind-manifesting substances such as marijuana, LSD and mescaline... The psychedelic drugs gave incontrovertible proof that altered states of consciousness had reality and that paths toward transcendent experience existed...We were hunting for ways to stay high forever and bring home the New Jerusalem, the Whole Earth". [John Heider, ibid.].

    The "psychedelic sixties" were, in fact, paving the way for the gathering wave of global demonic manipulation which would come in succeeding decades. That this was happening under the inspiration of demons can easily be shown (as we have done in another article). At the same time, Eastern mysticism made a major assault on the West by cashing in on this new transcendentalism. Such practices have contributed to the manufacture of a 'New' Consciousness which is finely tuned to the promptings of the demonic realm. It is because of these developments today that there is the great need for a rational, discerning mind, together with the Christian concept of objective reality -- all of which have become subject to much disparagement in the ethos of the New Gnosticism. Over twenty years ago, an international meeting attended by psychiatrists, psychologists, theologians, physicians, mathematicians, physicists and engineers, called 'The Interdisciplinary Conference on the Voluntary Control of Internal States of Consciousness', stated in its official invitation: "We have reached the point in history at which the exploration of 'internal states' has become not only legitimate, but also a high-priority business of science". [William Johnston, Silent Music: The Science of Meditation, (Collins, 1974), p.23].

The 1960s and 1970s represented the grand harvest of the Neo-Gnostic revival which had begun almost one hundred years earlier with the inception of the Theosophical Society. During this time there was a drug-induced global outburst of psychic activity which proved to be a watershed in the development of the New Gnosticism. A new age of eclecticism had dawned when every individual could pick and choose any components of any religious tradition or system and synthesise them into a hybrid of his own making. Irenaeus of Lyon's observation of the ancient Gnosticism, that "every day every one of them invents something new", is equally applicable to the New Gnosticism.

    So now a drug which played a great part in this massive societal transition is now about to be legalised in the Western world. The arguments in opposition to it have largely faded because they were based solely on cultural fears and traditions rather than spiritual facts. One only has to look at a city such as San Francisco or a country like the Netherlands to see how the widespread use and acceptance of cannabis influences administrations to become humanistic in the extreme, antichristian and opposed to every divine law. [An interesting note here is that even the men to did our house removal from the Netherlands, when asked whether they wanted a biscuit with their tea, requested if they could have "spacecake" instead! "Spacecake" is a nickname for cake which has cannabis baked in it.].

It is no coincidence that the Greek word most often translated as "sorcery" or "witchcraft" in the New Testament is pharmakeia (e.g. Gal.5:20; Acts 8:11; Rev.9:21; 18:23). It is from this word that pharmacology is derived -- the study of drug preparations. This is because drugs and sorcery have historically gone hand-in-hand. This can be seen classically in the life and work of the shaman (ethnic "medicine man"), who uses hallucinogenic drugs in order to enter an altered state of consciousness and prophesy. Today, such drugs as cannabis are making shamans out of every street-corner Harry who rolls a joint. This has massive implications for the spiritual life of humanity. Surely the widespread use and legalisation of cannabis is yet another part of the preparation for the coming Man of Sin who -- thanks to the efforts of cannabis legalisation campaigners -- will find a world far more receptive to the pharmakeia (sorceries) he will have to offer (Rev.18:23; 2 Thess.2:9).

"Pastor" Jeromy Visser's Ordination and Membership with the Legion of Saints is officially revoked due to his persistent false teachings promoting the use of Cannabis, otherwise known as Marijuana or Ganja.

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